The Tiber Below Perugia
Artist: George Inness (American, 1825-1894)
Date: 1871
Dimensions:
19 7/16 × 30 1/4 in. (49.4 × 76.8 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Place of Origin: United States
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Arthur J. Secor
Object number: 1922.36
Label Text:At the encouragement of his Boston dealers, who found that European landscape views sold better than American views, George Inness went to Italy in 1870, where he remained until 1874. According to his son, Inness spent two summers at the picturesque Umbrian hilltop town of Perugia. This painting is among those that Inness sent to his dealers in exchange for regular payments. It shows greater realism and detail than his more poetic works, prompted in part by the taste of the American public and the need to provide more readily saleable pictures.
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